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Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed -9th Amendment, 2016

Publication • August 2, 2016

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed -9th Amendment, 2016 ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2016

Publication • July 11, 2016

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2016 COOS COUNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk - Filing FROM: Office of Legal Counsel COOS COUNTY. OREGON CJ 2016-000369 ...

New Health Care Provider Picked for Oregon Jail after Audit Criticizes Corizon

Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015

Filed under: Naphcare, Corizon, Corrections Audits, Medication, Private Contractors, Eighth Amendment

provisions are a good idea considering that NaphCare, a for-profit company, has the same business model as Corizon and thus the same financial incentives to skimp on staffing and medical care for prisoners ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2015

Publication • May 19, 2015

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2015 COOS COUNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Coos County Sheriff's Office Please file the attached document ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2014

Publication • May 20, 2014

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2014 ...

Sexual Abuse by Oregon Jail Guard Nets Probation; Defense Attorney Blames Victim

Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Aramark, Staff-Staff Harassment, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct

a $900,000 lawsuit against Miller, Multnomah County and Aramark Correctional Services, which contracts with the jail. The suit claimed that Miller began making inappropriate comments shortly after she began ...

Johnson v. Corizon, OR, Complaint, Wrongful Death,

Brief • February 14, 2014

Filed under: Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health

Johnson v. Corizon, OR, Complaint, Wrongful Death, Elden M. Rosenthal, OSB No. 72217 elden@rgdpdx.com John T. Devlin, OSB No. 042690 john@rgdpdx.com Rosenthal Greene & Devlin, P.C. 121 SW Salmon St ...

Oregon Considers Subsidizing Prison Medical Costs Through Medicaid

Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013

Filed under: Medical, Private Contractors, Medical Expenses

Oregon Considers Subsidizing Prison Medical Costs Through Medicaid by With health care expenses for prisoners consuming more than $208 million of the biennial budget for the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) – a 67% increase since 2005 – prison officials are desperate to contain costs. Correctional Health Partners (CHP), which …

Federal Court Enters Interim Fee Award Against BOP in FOIA Suit

Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Freedom of Information Act

). Raher had requested various records concerning the BOP’s contracts with private prison companies, including the contracts themselves, contractor proposals and internal BOP emails. Under the BOP contracts ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2013

Publication • March 19, 2013

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2013 ~00SCOUNTY CLERK COOS COUNTY FILING COVER SHEET TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Coos County Sheriff's Office M.4R2 6.2013 ...

Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed

Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Medical, Private Contractors

Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2012

Publication • June 20, 2012

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2012 ...

Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe

Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Private Contractors

Former Oregon Prison Official Faces Ethics Probe by In March 2011, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,000-a-year job as an assistant administrator for the Health Services Division of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). Three days earlier he had been hired by Correctional Health Partners (CHP), a private medical …

Federal District Court Slams Bureau of Prisons in FOIA Suit

Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Freedom of Information Act, International, Immigration

) in a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking copies of contracts between the BOP and private prison companies for the detention of non-U.S. citizens convicted of federal crimes ...

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2011

Publication • August 8, 2011

Filed under: CONMED

Coos County Sheriff's Office Contract Summary With Conmed, 2011 COOS COUNn' CLERK AUG 16 2011 COOS COUNTY FILING COVER SHEET bl,3 'f'.. I ILL TO: Coos County Clerk's Office FROM: Coos County ...

$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Private Contractors, Excessive Force, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Police, Excessive Force (Police)

$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death by On July 2, 2009, the estate and family of a mentally ill Oregon man who died in police custody settled claims against Multnomah County, a former deputy sheriff and jail nurses for $925,000. The case remained pending against the City …

For Lease: Never-Used 525-Bed Oregon Jail, $45 Million or Best Offer

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, Financing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism

For Lease: Never-Used 525-Bed Oregon Jail, $45 Million or Best Offer by Mark Wilson A seemingly good idea before the housing market collapsed, the 525-bed, $58 million Wapato Jail has sat empty in Portland, Oregon since construction was completed in 2004. County taxpayers are paying approximately $5 million annually on …

Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains

Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Clergy, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Traditionally, the role of a chaplain in the correctional setting is to serve as a spiritual advisor to prisoners and help them meet the requirements of their religious faiths. Equally traditionally, chaplains have …

Florida and Oregon Prison Employees Face Sex Charges

Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic

Florida and Oregon Prison Employees Face Sex Charges by On November 7, 2008, prison guard Geno Lewis Hawkins was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the Inspector General’s Office of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) on a charge of sexual battery. In August 2008, FDLE …

Sexual Abuse by Prison and Jail Staff Proves Persistent, Pandemic

Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cornell Corrections, GRW Corp., Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Criminal Prosecution

and Jacqueline Overturf, were being held at the Brush Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by GRW Corp., when they were sexually assaulted by prison guard Russell E. Rollison. They filed a lawsuit ...

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